Paladino Memo to Dean Skelos

The NYS politicians are once again preparing to pass a
budget that maintains the status quo. The Tax Payers can’t let that happen – we
must present our own proposal for tax payer relief

As you know, Carl Paladino has been relentless in his views
on New York’s budget process. Below is his memo to Skelos – the senate majority
leader. It is telling the republicans not to fold under Cuomo’s pressure.
Cuomo’s Budget is the usual smoke and mirrors – it will NOT give NY tax payers
ANY tax relief. In fact, it will result in higher taxes through “NEW” local and
county taxes. (Read Carl’s full Press Release &
Memo below)

We are preparing for a march to Albany – the New
York Tax Payers will be presenting a Tax Payers budget proposal that includes
Carl’s recommendations. This time the New York Tax Payers will be heard.

Please read the memo and pass this along to every New York
Tax Payer you can.

Note:the media and hypocrites lie and slander
Carl at every turn of the road. Carl is a no nonsense guy that tells it like it
is. They fear the truth. Carl’s selfless courage to keep talking and continuing
to take the bullets with nothing in it for himself proves it was, and is,
Paladino For The People – pure and simple. Don’t believe the
propaganda – Carl is a genuine all around good man and his ideas are the real
deal for the taxpaying public. Please read below and support Carl’s hard
working efforts to help US. Please get the facts straight and defend Carl
and join us.

Message; I am interested in knowing what this
movement is about and what the plans are. Please send info as released to my
email address. To;glprespecta@yahoo.com

Message; I am interested in joining and I am willing
to participate in a nonpartisan effort to return NYS to the grand state it use
to be. I am ready willing and able to do my part. Please forward info on what I
can do to help to my email address (include your Phone number in your response
if YOU can). To;
ngatlin46@yahoo.com

Dean, you are no longer just the Senate Majority
Leader. You are the taxpayer’s “opposition” to the Cuomo/Silver cabal charged,
as an experienced warrior negotiating from power, to attack the status quo.
Below is a link to your interview with Liz Benjamin last week. It was not
inspiring.

The taxpayers want jobs and big cuts in spending
and taxes, which will help job retention and growth. They don’t care about
getting a budget by April 1. The people struggled to give you a Senate
majority. If the Senate doesn't change the status quo now, it won’t get
another chance and we will lose it in 2012.

The $10 billion concocted deficit was actually
more like $3 billion. With the bar on expected achievements [devoid of real tax
cuts] set so low by the press and without any significant or organized
opposition coming from any source and especially the Senate, Cuomo has created
the perfect setting where he can’t lose. With a little smoke and mirrors and an
easy buy in by the Senate he will resolve the deficit and be a hero for not
raising taxes. The taxpayer will get the status quo and more agony. The tail
is wagging the dog. You said to Liz that the Senate budget knocked a few bucks
off of Cuomo's budget and you appear to want to call it a day.

New York taxpayers are fed up with being the
highest spending and taxed State in the nation by almost 100% over the national
average. Reducing spending and taxes and removing debilitating regulation
creates jobs. A few months ago to win the election Cuomo said he was the only
true agent of change, would upset the status quo, downsize government and
confront the unions that have mortgages on our future generations. We knew it
was all hollow rhetoric and he was the ultimate conman. If he were to change
the status quo he would alienate the entitlement and union cabal that he needs
to get elected president.

You have the unique opportunity at the perfect
time to expose the fraud of the Cuomo/Silver culture, which nips around the
edges of the salient issues. Your conference can expose his vague and phony
budget and solve many of the other issues addressed below. By showing support
for the executive budget when announced it appeared you were dancing the Albany
2 step with Cuomo but the taxpayer waited in patient but heightened anticipation
for the Republican Conference's budget which they expected to severely attack
the status quo and many of the essential issues described below.

When your
conference finally presented its budget it was sickening. They are throwing the
taxpayers under the bus. Nothing has changed. Secret and suspect “three men in
a room” meetings are not the transparency the people expect. Staging debate and
acrimony while cutting deals and piecing off members in the back room is
theater. The Senate has the awesome responsibility to confront the demons and
protect the taxpayers’ interests but appears ready to throw in the towel.

You told Liz that both Cuomo and Silver are
opposed to withdrawing the Triborough Amendment and it would be a waste of time
going through the motions. Not true. Binding arbitration expires this year and
it is the hammer you need to rescind Triborough and reform pensions.

I gave you a roadmap for reform in the attached
"TURN ALBANY UPSIDE DOWN" memo. You have the power to implement many of the
reforms addressed therein. Cuomo/Silver can’t do anything without the Senate.
The Senate must use all of its powers to the fullest to implement change. If
Cuomo/Silver don't agree to reasonable change the taxpayers say let the
government shut down except for critical services. It's that bad.

You have the once in a lifetime opportunity to
use the power that the people gave to the Senate Republican Conference to
fulfill dreams, keep promises, protect the family fabric, rid the state of the
parasitic culture that has overcome Albany and stop the feeding frenzy at the
public trough.

Remember those dreams you had as a younger man
that you could leave a lasting mark and legacy. You can lead New York State to
a better day. Do not forget that it is only in the budget
process that you have the leverage to affect real change. Cuomo/Silver will
tell you that they will deal with the important issues after the budget because
then you will have no leverage to force change. The taxpayers don’t
particularly care how long it takes to get a budget. This is your opportunity
to show real leadership and get the job you are paid to do done.

I am sending a copy of this memo to all members
of the Senate Republican Conference, Republican and Conservative County and
State Chairs, the Assembly Republican Conference and key Tea Party coordinators
throughout the state among others. I suggest you and your conference consider
the organization of a rally in Albany at the kickoff announcement of the Senate
Republican revised budget which we would need to circulate in advance.

Here are a few particulars the Senate should
adopt in a revised Republican Senate Conference Budget:

1.] demand full transparency and disclosure. No three men in
a room secret meeting between principals or staff. Insist that the taxpayer be
able to look in the window at all deal making sessions.

a. the financial and mandate burdens
your budget places on local governments and school districts

b. the rescission of the MTA payroll
tax.

c. Medicaid optional benefit cuts,
the $10 billion/year of fraud, waste and abuse, withdrawal of the delegation of
authority to the executive branch to implement rules for application or
administration of benefits without specific legislation.

d. cuts in State agency and authority
personnel not only to save cost but to actually become efficient and productive
and do away with political and unnecessary jobs.

e. school and school services
consolidation, downsizing the bloated and unnecessary State Education
Department, restoring curriculum mandated to the local districts, rescission of
3020 a] of the education law and rescission of the Taylor Law for teachers. Who
cares in the 21st century if they strike? We can put National Guard or other
monitors in schools during strikes to alleviate the burdens on parents.

f. freezing all hiring for newly
created positions and wages in State governments including state agencies and
authorities and all local governments and school districts.

g. immediate reform of pensions to
defined contribution plans for all exempt employees in local and State
governments as proposed by Assemblyman Mike Fitzpatrick.

h. extension of binding arbitration
for only critical including first responder State and local government employees
after they agree to the rescission of Triborough and conversion of pension plans
to defined contribution.

I. repeal of the taxpayer punishing
Wick's Law.

j. the sale of unneeded prisons to
private operators to give surplus corrections officers a job.

k. significant reduction or
elimination of business taxes on manufacturing, creative and high tech
industries including the New York State Corporation Franchise Tax and the
minimum tax on small businesses.

l. eliminating green and other such
general and selective subsidies.

m.
merging the Thruway Authority and other bridge and transportation authorities
including the MTA with DOT.

n. raising non-resident tuitions at
SUNY to the actual cost of the education and enacting strict residency
requirements.

o. implementation of the Lundine
report recommendations for consolidation of local governments and
districts.

If I am who I think I am, and If you are who I think you are, and you are who you think you are, and we both know that we are thinking that we know what we think we know, and we have thought about this all before we knew that we knew it, than perhaps we know who we are, and I know you and you know me, and we all live in an alien spacecraft under the sea.